How to Use Soviet in a Sentence

Soviet

adjective
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  • The first Soviet and American soft landings on the moon happened all the way back in the 1960s, at the dawn of the Space Race.
    — Popular Science, 22 Aug. 2023
  • One of Putin’s first acts in office was to change the melody of the Russian national anthem back to the Soviet one.
    — Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Then a Soviet skater and a Norwegian skater tied Grishin for the gold with the exact same times.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2023
  • Barry points out that if the U.S. faked the moon landing, the Soviet government would have been all over that.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 12 July 2024
  • In the end, no Soviet cosmonauts ever flew around the Moon.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Russia’s view of itself as a great empire is not a Soviet thing.
    — Leon Aron, National Review, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Read more Just for subscribers: The rise and fall of a Soviet surgeon who came to America, made millions — and lost it all.
    — USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
  • The Ukrainians that day could use their 155mm rounds while saving their Soviet calibers.
    — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The book traces the evolution of his attitudes toward the Soviet past.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Some lieutenant colonel from troop services with a mustache came by in an old Soviet car to welcome them.
    — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Many Afghans fled the Soviet invasion of their country in 1979, settling in Pakistan during the biggest refugee crisis in the world at the time.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
  • To their free-marketeer eyes, the Global Plan was too close to Soviet planning for comfort.
    — Yanis Varoufakis, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2024
  • As the Soviet army approaches, the prisoners are put on a forced march to the concentration camp at Mauthausen, where Stephen will spend the next year.
    — Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2024
  • First in a very practical sense, because a lot of the stuff that Soviet dissidents write about—they’re exactly the same now.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The Soviet economy flourished, only to stagnate as the decade wore on.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
  • In the 1920s, the Soviet government began to drain the sea for irrigation of cotton and other cash crops.
    — Victoria Milko, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Puyi gave the timepiece to his Russian interpreter, Georgy Permyakov, as a parting gift on his last day in a Soviet prison camp, per the auction house.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2023
  • The synagogue was looted and burned by the Nazis, and its remains were completely destroyed by the Soviet authorities in the 1950s, who built a school on the site.
    — Jns Staff Report, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2024
  • Constructed in 1928, the specter of the Soviet era still lingers in its lofty granite columns and Art Deco flourishes.
    — Frankie Adkins, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2023
  • Rolling from concealment in a wooded area near Basra, the ex-Soviet tanks initially moved as a group.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • In 1976, Ford said [during the debate] there was no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, which was a huge gaffe and was treated as such at the time.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 29 June 2024
  • In peacetime, the ships would have escorted convoys from the United States to Europe through a gauntlet of Soviet submarines.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023
  • In any event, Putin has a thirst for empire, Sharansky explains, as Russian and Soviet leaders past have had.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 June 2023
  • During the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s and Russia’s war in the breakaway republic of Chechnya, the mothers of conscripts mobilized to campaign against the abuse of conscripts.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Unlike the former Soviet regime, Mr. Putin’s government leaves the door open for those who are dissatisfied to go.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2024
  • After Nazi occupation of Hungary in the mid-1940s, Soviet forces drove out the Germans.
    — Sean Gregory, TIME, 26 July 2024
  • Kasparov refused to compete under the Soviet flag — the hammer and sickle.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 June 2023
  • The Russian army still broadly adheres to Soviet force-design.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Abrahamian’s most riveting excursus tells the story of a Soviet vessel that was launched from a Finnish shipyard in 1975.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
  • About the same time, Soviet tanks were ordered into Hungary to crush an uprising against communist rule and install a regime compliant to Moscow.
    — W. Joseph Campbell, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2024

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